You missed my point, Dave.
As I read many of the sonnets from afar because I could not sent to the
list due to difficulties I was having, I noticed that most of the sonnets
were written in a Shakespearean format and with a Shakespearean take.
My poem was one that was in quite an American vein -- Melville/Crane.
That's all.
Am I owned? Hmmm...Are not the families Blair and W. lunching today? Give
me a break...
--Ak
At 04:39 PM 7/19/01, you wrote:
> > In case you haven't noticed, half of all Americans are now wearing at
>least
> > one tattoo
>
>My learning curve increases. You mean that there are people on this list who
>define themselves as Americans. I sometime call myself a Brit but only for
>the sake of a joke. But now it seems that this is a list made of not of
>people, as I formerly thought it, but of let us say 'professional
>Americans' ( no offense meant to quite a few btw who are from the States but
>not wishing to emulate Hollywood, State Department foreign policy or Coca
>Cola in their presence) and everybody else, who are just waiting to be
>owned.
>
>Jeez
>
>Dave
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "kent johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:28 PM
>Subject: Don't Call Me Ishmael, etc.
>
>
> > AK,
> >
> > In case you haven't noticed, half of all Americans are now wearing at
>least
> > one tattoo. A high percentage of these are in close proximity to sexually
> > useful parts of the anatomy. Half of those with tatoos are driving
>Harleys.
> > May I suggest something a bit pithier than "sweetheart" or "baby"?
> >
> > "Don't Call me Ishmael, Asshole," Or "Don't Call Me Ishmael, Bitch," would
> > be much more fetching and in tune with the boat drifting across the seas
>of
> > 5,000 years.
> >
> > Nice poem, sweetheart.
> >
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